Chris Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1708-3554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sidney and Maps
Sidney’s writing career unfolded amid a sixteenth-century sea change in England’s relationship to cartography. The arrival in Britain of what historians of cartography call the Cartographic Revolution altered the day-to-day workings of private life, as well as of politics, diplomacy, travel, military activity, and the arts: all of these dimensions of Sidney’s public career. This chapter offers a brief introduction to the ways a sudden influx of n…
A balanced approach to the potential of octopus aquaculture
3 pages.-- Data availability: No new data were used for the research described in this communication
Technology and Literature
Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover the consequences of new technologies. Individual chapters focus on how specific literary technologies – the development of writing, the printing press, typewr…
Time River Body
Relying on sustained, relentless personification, Drayton’s chorographical epic Poly-Olbion retains the ethical work of The Faerie Queene ’s allegory in restoring to the national narrative the embodied immanence of the people within it; but Drayton’s poem takes personification as its dominant representation mode. The poem explores and exploits the paradoxical nature of personification, a device that is simultaneously evocative and anti-mimetic. T…
Ground-Work
Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science. Hillary Eklund, ed. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2017. viii + 296 pp. $70. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety
Though the Renaissance map—made newly accurate and newly ubiquitous by the Cartographic Revolution—delighted, inspired, and fascinated, it also unsettled, upset, and disturbed sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph to demonstrate how early modern anxieties about maps and map logics accompanied an early modern poetics of representational crisis. The…
Assessing the efficiency of US electricity markets
Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety
Though the Renaissance map—made newly accurate and newly ubiquitous by the Cartographic Revolution—delighted, inspired, and fascinated, it also unsettled, upset, and disturbed sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph to demonstrate how early modern anxieties about maps and map logics accompanied an early modern poetics of representational crisis. The…
Assessing the efficiency of US electricity markets
Time River Body
Relying on sustained, relentless personification, Drayton’s chorographical epic Poly-Olbion retains the ethical work of The Faerie Queene ’s allegory in restoring to the national narrative the embodied immanence of the people within it; but Drayton’s poem takes personification as its dominant representation mode. The poem explores and exploits the paradoxical nature of personification, a device that is simultaneously evocative and anti-mimetic. T…
Ground-Work
Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science. Hillary Eklund, ed. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2017. viii + 296 pp. $70. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety
Though the Renaissance map—made newly accurate and newly ubiquitous by the Cartographic Revolution—delighted, inspired, and fascinated, it also unsettled, upset, and disturbed sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph to demonstrate how early modern anxieties about maps and map logics accompanied an early modern poetics of representational crisis. The…
Technology and Literature
Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover the consequences of new technologies. Individual chapters focus on how specific literary technologies – the development of writing, the printing press, typewr…
Sidney and Maps
Sidney’s writing career unfolded amid a sixteenth-century sea change in England’s relationship to cartography. The arrival in Britain of what historians of cartography call the Cartographic Revolution altered the day-to-day workings of private life, as well as of politics, diplomacy, travel, military activity, and the arts: all of these dimensions of Sidney’s public career. This chapter offers a brief introduction to the ways a sudden influx of n…
A balanced approach to the potential of octopus aquaculture
3 pages.-- Data availability: No new data were used for the research described in this communication
Art (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philippine History and Culture (2 works)